TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Thoma Bravo, the private equity and growth capital firm, today announced that it would spend $1.8 billion CAD (~$1.34 billion) to acquire Magnet Forensics, a Waterloo-based company making software used by defense forces and businesses to investigate cybersecurity threats. Magnet Forensics will be purchased by a newly created corporation controlled by Thoma Bravo, Morpheus Purchaser Inc., which will pay Magnet Forensics shareholders a 15% premium over Thursday’s closing price on the Toronto

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our "Agile Karaoke" Game On event was a great success with fun and learning had by all! The post Making “ish” up with Agile karaoke first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment. In fact, some investors feel that 2023 will be the year when alternative seafood companies and products make notable strides. More than $178 million was pumped into alternative seafood in the first half of 2022, and the market’s value is poised to reach $1.6 billion over the next 10

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

By: Cathy Won, Consultant with eTeam, HPE Aruba Contributor. The Future of Work and the Workplace is a 2023 Leesman survey report co-authored by HPE Aruba. The report explores the critical questions on the minds of business leaders coming out of the pandemic today. What is the future of work and the workplace? How must organizations adapt? Unsurprisingly, the report revealed that 94% of corporate real estate leaders surveyed indicated that they are making changes, with 55% indicating that mean

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Many of us would feel better if we ate better. But for patients with chronic diseases, the issue is more pressing: Fixing their diet is often key to keeping their condition under control. According to the CDC , six in 10 adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease such as diabetes or heart conditions. Millions of these could benefit from professional nutrition guidance but don’t always have the time or means to seek care.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. British International Investment (BII), a DFI from the UK, told TechCrunch recently that it will deploy $500 million into startups by the end of 2026, and half of that amount has been earmarked for African tech companies.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

What was once an anomaly is now a global reality as remote and hybrid work models settle in across industries. To adapt to this new “new normal,” organizations will need to reinforce their workforces with technologies that can keep pace. In 2022, the percentage of remote workdays in the US soared above the pre-pandemic levels of 5 percent to reach 30 percent. [1] Though some high-profile CEOs are now instating strict return-to-office policies, most are finding ways to compromise.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Happy Friday! Join us in wishing Lorenzo a very warm welcome to the team! He’s joining our crack team of cybersecurity reporters, working alongside Zack and Carly. He just published his first article on TC, about T-Mobile reporting a hacker accessed personal data of 37 million customers.

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Xebia

JANUARY 20, 2023

In this blog you’ll read how to make sure your persistent volume-backed pods will start after upgrading Kubernetes (K8S) to v1.25. The blog starts with a quick introduction to the problem. After we’ll dive in on how the problem manifested, what we tried and how we ultimately fixed it and I’ll end this blogpost of with a script you can use to make sure you’ll not be impacted by this problem.

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

People can never land on a word to explain what is happening to women and minorities within venture. Are such founders overlooked or undersought? Underestimated and underrepresented? Marginalized? Discriminated against? Or just ignored? The excuses used to justify these sobriquets are equally scattered. Women received just 1.9% of all venture capital funds last year because they are only building beauty and wellness companies; there is a lack of a proven track record; it’s too early, they are to

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

Over the past two years, there’s been significant hype around observability in the IT operations and DevOps world. As shorthand for providing better insights, observability has seen a rise in lockstep with distributed architectures, cloud-native applications and the increasingly complex IT environments associated with them. As we round out 2022 and move into the new […] The post Digital Experience and the Future of Observability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Veronica Torres Contributor Share on Twitter Veronica Torres is the worldwide privacy and regulatory counsel for Jumio , where she provides strategic legal counsel regarding business processes, applications and technologies to ensure compliance with privacy laws. It’s true there has been progress around data protection in the U.S. thanks to the passing of several laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ), and nonbinding documents, such as the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

A big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many manual steps within their deployment process, according to an Armory survey. And with the pervasiveness of multi-cloud, developers now face an escalating number […] The post 6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US. The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech pla

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 20, 2023

Obsessed for good surfaced naturally as a truth for how this organization operates and it has remained their mantra since. In this episode, David talks with Amy Pyles, President of Saxum, about what obsessed for good means for their company and the five pillars they use to guide clients as well as themselves. Obsessed for Good 01:17 What is the deeper meaning of the motto, obsessed for Good?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Due to a phenomenon called semantic satiation, if you repeat a word or phrase too frequently, it can sometimes lose all meaning. That’s what happened to “unicorn:” We wore it out like a pair of sneakers that leak in the rain but are too comfortable to part with. In fact, most of the startups in CB Insights’ unicorn index are on the bubble and “ are actually hovering right at the $1 billion mark ,” reports Rebecca Szkutak. “How many of these will stay uni

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TechSoup

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between June and September of 2022, TechSoup, in partnership with the digital marketing and technology agency Tapp Network, built the Nonprofit Digital Marketing Benchmark Survey. Our mission was to gather data on how nonprofits were responding to the drastic changes in digital communications and to provide helpful insights and recommendations. We compared the findings to those gathered in the 2020-2021 Nonprofit Digital Marketing Benchmark Survey and Report.

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak jumped on the mic to talk through a diverse news week. Shoutout to our producer, Theresa Loconsolo, for putting together a script, and TC’s Andrew Mendez for this feedback: “Y’all slayyyed that recording and honestly can’t wait to you all up on social media when this epi

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Kaseya

JANUARY 20, 2023

As you look to grow your business, you’ll likely strive to implement marketing efforts to reach new customers, raise visibility and awareness for your brand, and reinforce or expand your relationship with existing clients. The goal is to make the most impact and return on investment (ROI) for your marketing efforts. With that in mind, you will want to ensure you have a strong marketing strategy in place that includes both online and offline efforts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Area 120 , the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks , Tables , Stack and ThreadBite , has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet. A spokesperson tells TechCrunch via email that the majority of the Area 120 team has been “winded down,” and that only three projects from the division will graduate later this year into core Google product areas.

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scruminc

JANUARY 20, 2023

Announcing Scrum Inc. U.K. by The Scrum Inc. Team | January 20th, 2023 | Blog The quest to achieve organizational agility and improve business outcomes is universal. No matter if your organization is enterprise, military, or government. This is why we at Scrum Inc. are excited to announce our new, full-time presence in the United Kingdom: Scrum Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2023

Online shopping platforms allow people to see changes in a product’s price over time — offering opportunities for buyers and sellers alike.

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Teradata

JANUARY 20, 2023

The dwindling personal auto insurance market is a harbinger of a lot more change to come. Find out more.

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Synopsys

JANUARY 20, 2023

Black Duck Security Advisories provide actionable advice and details about open source vulnerabilities to help you improve your remediation activities.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 20, 2023

Companies are using DevOps to respond quickly to changing market dynamics and customer requirements. In any case, the biggest bottleneck in implementing a successful DevOps framework is testing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2023

Five priorities to ensure federal and state regulators build on the progress achieved during the pandemic.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. This, on the one hand, is heavily influenced by the sustained rising and popularity of big-data processing frameworks, including but not limited to Hadoop, Spark, and NoSQL databases; on the other hand, as more and more data are to be analyzed in a correlated and multi-dimensional fashion, it's getting difficult to pack all data into one graph on one instance, having a truly distributed a

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Tenable

JANUARY 20, 2023

Learn all about the spike in CISO job satisfaction. Plus, NIST mulls major makeover of its Cybersecurity Framework. Also, the struggle to develop secure apps is real. Then check out how Uncle Sam plans to use AI and ML to boost cybersecurity. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending Jan. 20. 1 - CISO job satisfaction hits 3-year high Don’t count CISOs among those who can’t get no satisfaction.

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